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SUNDERLAND, England — A Sunderland supporter has been handed a three-year football banning order for making a racist gesture towards Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku, one of the Premier league's top scorers last season.

Court officials said Liam Jones was given an 18-month conditional discharge after he admitted causing racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by making a monkey gesture towards Lukaku, who is black, while watching his team lose 4-2 to West Brom last November.